Isolated (non-normal) failures

"In the context of Normal Accident Theory [150], normal accidents are those that “could no longer be ascribed to isolated equipment malfunction, operator error, or acts of God.” We refer to these as “system failures” (to be distinguished from “systemic risks”), while the opposite would be “isolated failures.” For isolated failures, harms are consistent with the underlying failure modes. For example, an AI capable of producing false or misleading content would constitute risks re- lated to misinformation and disinformation. Whereas for system failures, harms are not consistent with the underlying failure modes, or the harms are caused by interactions between different components within a system rather than from the failure of any specific component."